Bts stickers

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: (L-R) Jimin, Jungkook, RM, J-Hope, V, Jin, and SUGA of the K-pop ... [+] boy band BTS visit the "Today" Show at Rockefeller Plaza on February 21, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/WireImage) WireImage Trading card manufacturing company Topps came under fire on Tuesday when it revealed its Grammys-themed Garbage Pail Kids sticker collection, which included a violent portrayal of BTS that people widely condemned as racist and insensitive. Topps apologized for the sticker this morning and announced it had removed the card from the set. Launched in 1985, Garbage Pail Kids were originally designed to parody Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, with each character suffering from some sort of abnormality or being put in a violent or vulgar scenario. The series has since expanded to skewer different pop culture topics. The BTS sticker was set to be featured in the forthcoming “Shammy Awards” collection, which riffs on several artists who performed at Sunday’s ceremony. Taylor Swift is depicted as a woodland creature named “Tree-Swift,” Harry Styles is renamed “Harry Boa” and wears an angry boa constrictor around his neck, and Megan Thee “Stunning Stallion” carries her Grammy award while riding a stallion across the beach. The backlash against the BTS Garbage Pail Kids sticker was swift and severe. Podcaster and YouTuber Jose Ochoa called out Topps in a viral tweet, demanding to know why BTS was the only artist in the Shammys collection to receive a ...